hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 day ago:
And a partridge in a pear tree!
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 days ago:
Yeah, fair enough. That’s a great point. I will update my opinion of this advancement.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 days ago:
The catch is that it’s useless in most plastics applications, where you really don’t want it to dissolve easily. Probably more catches, but that’s the one I see right away.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 days ago:
You see the thing is, the point of plastic is that it doesn’t dissolve easily. I can see this having some niche applications, but this won’t be replacing most plastics any time soon.
- Comment on Most American headline 3 days ago:
You wanna eat?
You want to eat?
No more parents!
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 6 days ago:
Get like eight to ten shitty things delivered to his house every day. Either something he’ll have to pay for like a pizza, or something just completely useless, like a cheap spare part for something he doesn’t have.
Obviously, use his name and don’t use your real phone number. He’ll have to deal with all the trash constantly.
Won’t really solve your issue, but it’s good revenge for him being an asshole.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 6 days ago:
My friend Greg does. I don’t get it.
- Comment on I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe? 1 week ago:
The problem is that it’s a common suffix among all of their passwords. That kind of thing is easy to search for in a password leak database.
- Comment on I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe? 1 week ago:
It’s probably not safe if they use that for everything. Someone could match emails and password suffixes, then they’d only have four letters to brute force. So all it takes is two leaks that your friend is on and he’s at real risk.
Generally, this would be avoided by whatever site storing their passwords as hashes instead of in plain text, but you can’t rely on that.
They should just use a password manager.
- Comment on Avocado 1 week ago:
Are they flipping out because that’s ridiculous and false?
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 week ago:
You gotta mention that the innocent bystanders are straight, or else conservatives won’t know whether to feel sorry for them or be happy they were attacked.
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 1 week ago:
I’ve never understood why people want the excrement from attractive people. Regardless of where it came from, it’s still excrement.
(I’m considering gray water as excrement.)
- Comment on Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans 1 week ago:
Cool. I’ll just be over here happily playing my Steam Deck.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 1 week ago:
Play it just to sabotage my own teammates.
- Comment on Is this incest? 1 week ago:
Welp, that’s enough internet for today. Bye, everybody.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 1 week ago:
That’s the thing though, free social media was giving them massive returns. But the line must go up. And once they completely saturated the market, there are only two ways to make the line go up: expand the market (give Internet to communities that didn’t have it), or extract more money from your existing users (enshittify). Facebook made a half assed attempt at the first one for a couple years, then pivoted hard to the second.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 2 weeks ago:
It’s simpler, there is a client for everything even mobile phones, it has a move command, it has props that can be edited without a copy command, pagination is however you set it up to be rather than a one size fits all approach, it can be just as scalable as S3 if you build it to be, it has much simpler locks that make them easier to use so you might actually use them.
That’s just the protocol level. The biggest benefit for me isn’t really at the protocol level, but part of the design of my own WebDAV server: deduplication. I can throw the same file into my server with 50 different keys, and it will only take up the space of one copy on disk. This basically moved the logic of deduplication from my application to the blob store. Mountains easier from an application design perspective.
- Comment on There were probably some people who just really liked "Never gonna give you up" and really enjoyed getting rick rolled 2 weeks ago:
Yes, hi, hello. Feel free.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 2 weeks ago:
I’ve completely switched away from using Minio (and just the S3 protocol in general) in all of my projects.
I’ve found that the WebDAV protocol is better for object storage in almost every case. It’s also way simpler to use and understand.
Now it’s time for me to shill:
I wrote my own WebDAV server called Nephele. It’s free and open source, and you can run it on Docker. Probably doesn’t help if you’re using something that requires S3, but if you’re building something, I implore you to migrate away from S3.
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 2 weeks ago:
No. Severe turbulence happens once in a while, and the people standing at that time can get really injured. That’s why they tell you to stay seated with your belt on unless you’re going to the bathroom.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 2 weeks ago:
My wife’s electric car doesn’t have a dipstick.
- Comment on I'm looking for a tutorial video, "On today's episode of Will It Blend, we have a blender, some water, and some used lithium batteries" 2 weeks ago:
No water necessary if they’re charged.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 2 weeks ago:
A hosting provider is a business. If your dad is a business and you are buying hosting services from him, then yes, he is a hosting provider and you are not self hosting. But that’s not what you’re doing. You’re hosting on your own hardware on your family’s internet. That’s self hosting.
When you host on Hetzner, you’re hosting on their hardware using their internet. That’s not self hosting. It’s similar, cause like you said, you have to do a lot of the same administration work, but it’s not self hosting.
Where it gets a little murky is rack space providers. Then you’re hosting on your own hardware, but it’s not your own internet, and there’s staff there to help you… kinda iffy whether you’re self hosting, but I’d say yeah, since you own the hardware.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 2 weeks ago:
Their dad is not a hosting provider. I mean, maybe he is, but that would be really weird.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 2 weeks ago:
Your parents’ house isn’t the cloud, so yeah, it’s self hosted. The “tipping point” is whether you’re using a hosting provider.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 2 weeks ago:
Your stuff is still in the cloud, so I would say no. It’s better than using the big tech products, but I wouldn’t say it’s fully “self hosted”. Not that that really makes much of a difference. You’re still pretty much in control of everything, so you should be fine.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 weeks ago:
“Stuck”
Imagine being stuck using something that works for 30 years.
- Comment on If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin? 3 weeks ago:
It’s still a cupcake because it’s cake and not muffin. Cake is a sweeter and fluffier kind of bread because it has more sugar and fat, whereas muffins are basically just dense bread.
- Comment on If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin? 3 weeks ago:
No. A cupcake is defined by being a cake in a cup. Muffins aren’t cakes.
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 3 weeks ago: